Tauride KB

The St. Petersburg Joint-Stock Commercial Bank Tauride (public joint-stock company) was established in early 1993. Tavricheskiy Bank is one of the largest universal banks in the North-West region of the country and is one of the TOP-100 banks in Russia in terms of net assets. The head office of Tavrichesky Bank is located in St. Petersburg, the office network includes 27 customer service points in St. Petersburg, a branch and 2 offices in Moscow, as well as 4 divisions in the cities of the North-Western District: Sosnovy Boru, Kingiseppe and Syktyvkar. Since June 2015, the main shareholder of Tavricheskiy Bank has been JSC AKB International Financial Club (IFC Bank).

History

2021

Additional issue for 1.6 billion rubles

In August 2021, the Bank of Russia agreed on an additional issue of shares of Tauride Bank for 1.6 billion rubles. The papers will be placed in favor of Mikhail Prokhorov's International Financial Club Bank and Sergey Chemezov's family .

The amount of embezzlement of funds of depositors of Tauride Bank approached 1 billion rubles

In early August 2021, it became known that the amount of embezzlement of funds of depositors of Tauride Bank was close to 1 billion. rubles Among the accused - ex-member, of the Federation Council owner of the liquor plant CJSC "" Liviz Alexander Sabadash, as well as his accomplices from among the former leadership of the credit institution.

According to the RAPSI in the Joint Press Service of the Courts (OPS) of St. Petersburg, investigators counted 16 episodes of the crime (10 of them were charged), as a result of which 952 million rubles were stolen. This was stated at a meeting to extend the preventive measure to one of the defendants in the form of detention - the former deputy chairman of the board of Tauride Bank Dmitry Garkusha.

The amount of embezzlement of funds of depositors of Tauride Bank approached 1 billion rubles

By the beginning of August 2021, the defendants in this case are under arrest (having already served their sentences on previous charges) for about nine years, since law enforcement agencies entered the embezzlement scheme. In addition to Sabadash and Garkusha, the former chairman of the board of Tauride Bank Sergey Somov, as well as former financier Sabadasha Harry Itkin, who is on the international wanted list and hiding abroad, are under investigation, the case of the latter has been set aside in a separate proceeding.

According to investigators, the defendants issued non-refundable loans to Milan LLC on the basis of fictitious agreements allegedly related to legal entrepreneurial activities to import production equipment for the manufacture of molds for the production of glass bottles from non-resident Renaissance Premier S. A.^[1]

2020: Arrest of former top manager of the bank D. Garkushi

On July 31, 2020, the Smolninsky District Court arrested Dmitry Garkusha, the former deputy chairman of Tauride Bank, until September 29. The top manager is suspected of 10 episodes of fraud. Garkush was detained the day before, on the same day he was charged. The banker does not admit his guilt.

According to investigators, no later than March 2013, at that time, the bank's management Sergey Somov agreed with his deputy Garkusha and accomplices to steal money through a withdrawal scheme for fictitious transactions. To do this, they attracted Milan LLC. Credit was issued for the purchase of imported molds on which bottles are made.

The money was withdrawn "acting by deception, through Garkusha, authorized to sign orders for the issuance of loans, loan agreements and other administrative documents, in the absence of a conclusion on the financial condition of the borrower and a decision of the bank's credit committee," the joint press service of the city courts said.

According to a similar scheme, Somov and Garkush, according to the association, conducted another 9 transactions, in total they withdrew about 450 million rubles from the bank. The Milan company, according to the investigation, was affiliated with the Liviz liquor plant of Alexander Sabadash.

2015: Vedomosti: 35 billion rubles will be allocated for the reorganization of Tauride Bank

According to February 2015, the Central Bank may announce the reorganization of Tauride Bank and plans to allocate 35 billion rubles for these purposes, the Vedomosti newspaper writes, citing sources.

The largest creditor of the bank is Lenenergo, it contains the main accounts of the energy company, Lenenergo employees receive salaries on Tauride cards.

Earlier it was reported that the Bank of Moscow is participating in the assessment of the financial condition of Tauride. Bank card payments are suspended.

1999

Since 1999, Tauride has been a member of the international payment system MasterCard Worldwide and Visa International. The Bank pays special attention to the development of computer technologies that increase the speed and reliability of operations, as well as provide customers with the opportunity to manage their accounts and work with the Bank without leaving the office. One of the strategically important areas of development is the improvement of the technical level of banking systems and the development on this basis of new modern forms of customer service, in particular, Internet banking, client account maintenance by remote access, the introduction of various innovative services based on bank cards, etc.